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Tina Trenkner

Tina Trenkner

Deputy Editor, GOVERNING.com

Tina Trenkner (@TinaTrenkner) is GOVERNING.com deputy web editor. She started at GOVERNING in 2009 and has covered stories such as the rise of the coder in local government and the risks of using social media. Previously, she worked for Education Week and Pre-K Now, a completed project from the Pew Center on the States. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and thinks of Evanston often.

 

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The number of bariatric surgeries that TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, paid for in 2008.
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The fee grieving families in King County, Wash., must pay to report a death to the Medical Examiner's Office. The fee went into effect Jan. 1 and will pay for the cost of reviewing 13,000 deaths each year in the county.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace in an interview that he's not planning an 2012 presidential run.
Some law enforcement agencies depend on computer software to create composites that allow them to pursue investigations.
An employee feedback program helps demonstrate that management is paying attention to what employees have to share.
Executive Editor Jonathan Walters sheds light onto how he approached his January feature on cuts to fire departments as journalist and as a volunteer firefighter.
A model agreement between state chief information officers, attorneys general and Facebook addresses legal concerns state and local governments may have regarding social media use.
Nine localities will help design an online platform to measure and rate their sustainability efforts.
A policy addressing e-mail retention and disaster recovery raises issues about how electronic correspondence needs to be stored.
Voluntary Spanish classes are a way for employees to provide better service to a growing Hispanic population.